Fall quarter of 98 I took EE478. It is the Electrical Engineering departments Capstone digital design course. It is the course tries to identify and fill in any holes that graduating EEs may have. It tries to do this through a series of rather large labs and one final baloon design project at the end of the course.
My partner, Dave Hobe, and I chose to build a 68K based microcomputer. Nothing to large or too crazy. Just some RAM, some ROM, buss driving chips, and some home rolled memmory management hardware. The kicker turned out not to be designing it at all but getting the thing up and running. After graduation I promised myself I would actually stick a more detailed description of the project up here. However all that free time I was expecting upon graduation has yet to appear. For now Here is a picture of my partner Dave Haube, Prof Peckol, myself and the project.
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The project was built across two boards. The total was built up of four vector boards. One to mount the components on, and the other to protect the pins and wires from accidental shorts. The processor and home rolled MMU was on the bottom board, while RAM and ROM was across the buss on the top r board. We really wanted to have the design be extendible , hence going to all the trouble to split the design across a buss. |